Detectives have praised the courage of victims in helping lock up a teenage rapist.
Lucan Wright was aged 17 when he raped a girl and a woman during separate incidents.
Both were assaulted in Nottinghamshire by Wright, now aged 20, back in 2023.
They weren't isolated offences, with Wright raping the woman and teenage girl multiple times.
His serious sexual offending was accompanied by threats of violence and controlling and coercive behaviour against both victims.
Having committed those offences as a teenager, he then subjected a third victim to a prolonged violent ordeal, between last December and January this year.
The teenage girl was strangled, physically assaulted multiple times, threatened, and imprisoned in a Worksop property against her will for nearly a month by Wright.
His catalogue of criminality was eventually discovered when his three victims each made the brave decision to come forward and tell police what he'd done.
He would go on to be charged with multiple counts of rape, engaging in controlling/coercive behaviour, strangulation, false imprisonment and making threats to kill.
Wright, of Northumbria Close, Worksop, was also charged with multiple counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault by beating.
While he admitted to those charges, he denied the rest, which prompted the need for a trial at Nottingham Crown Court that concluded in July of this year.
That's when a jury convicted him of each of the other offences, with a sentencing date then set for this Tuesday (13 October) before the same court.
Appearing before the court via video link, Wright was ruled a dangerous offender by Judge Michael Auty, who handed him an extended 15-year custodial sentence.
He was sentenced to 12 years in custody – of which he must serve at least half before he is considered for release – and will then spend a further three years on licence.
Wright will have to sign the sex offenders' register for the rest of his life, while he was also made the subject of a restraining order.
This will last until further order and bans him from contacting any of his three victims in any way.
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